A very point blank 'article' dealing with minorities

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Sprayber



She problably leaves it up there because people like you insist she take it down. You all seem very selective about what you critize. I don't see how any of you make it through the day without being offended.

United States of the Offended.

She's being intentionally offensive, Spray. It's not like I saw someone wearing a Hawaiian shirt and got offended at the denigration of flowers, ferns, and other assorted flora. Surely you can see the difference.

[KrazyHorse]

And as a publically visible document it's fair to go after it. You put your stuff where people can read it and you've opened yourself up to criticism.

[Boris Godunov]

If one puts up one's opinion on the internet, one had better be ready to have it critiqued. That's the nature of the world, and I think it's fair. No one is censoring her, are they?

This reminds me of the hypocrisy of Pat Robertson when he brings his religion into his politics but then dares to act affronted that someone would criticize his religion. He put it on the table, so its fair game and he should grow a spine. Same for this girl. If she wants to post it, she's going to have to deal with the reaction. She wanted the reaction and she got what she wanted. Why do you feel sorry for her?

[Sprayber]

http://www.kkk.com/

http://www.noi.org/

http://www.americannaziparty.com/

Have fun boys.

[KrazyHorse]

The ANP website is hilarious. Especially the part of the swastika being the "age-old symbol of the white man"...

[KrazyHorse]

Guynemer, they're based in Michigan.

[Promethus]

so its fair game and he should grow a spine. Same for this girl.

She seems to have more "spine" than most of the posters here.

[morb]

Originally posted by Guynemer
The ability to say, "Hey, I'm wrong, perhaps I ought to rectify the situation." That sure would be dandy.

i see, so its ok to express one's opinions only if they are "correct or right" as accourding to you.

now who's pathetic?

I'm really sick of this PC crap. This is basically what she is saying too. Just because some little gay kid is offended by my opinion I shouldn't have the right to express it?

Talk about institutionalized bigotry. My opinion is out of favour with some "minorities," mainly 90% of the so called "enlightened" PC and "tolorence" preaching population.

If you're going to jump in with the "she's not being cencored" comment, OF COURSE SHE IS. This is cencorship by peer/public pressure. This is the premis on which the whole PC movement was based on. It IS cencorship. If one person told you to shut up, you'd ignore them and move one, but if thousands do this? Even if you're not going to change your opinion, you aren't going to express it because you finally get tired of the hassel. This is exactly what the rest of you are counting on. The whole "its up for critique" argument doesn't fly. You're just using this to shut up your oponents.

I'm also going to make another gross generalization and state a stereotype, because there is a grain of truth to it the size of, oh say the moon. AS SOON as the "minority" gains momentum and support or become the majority, they immedietly turn from "equality for everyone, meaning we are not as equal" to "you do things our way now mister or you're not welcome." Bunch of Nazis you are.

I don't care for your kind of tolorence because it comes at MY expense. You don't like my words, its your right to do so, but don't tell ME, I don't have the right to express them.

END.

p.s. I'm speaking for myself, but I'm also defending the girl who wrote the original piece, since you're all so quick to troll where she isn't likely to defend herself.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

So, morb, what you're saying is that we're wrong to say that we disagree with people?

The door's the rectangular thing in the wall.

Incidentally, you're a cheeky little boy to bleat about "institutionalised bigotry" when you said that 90% of Mexicans are dumb.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Guynemer, they're based in Michigan.

I'm aware. They used to be based in my hometown. I've had my confrontations with them.

[Guynemer]

Morb, I never told you or that excitable little girl that you don't have the right to express yourselves. Never. Not once.

What I told her was this: She realizes that what she has on her website is a racist diatribe. So instead of acknowledging this, and altering it or whatever, she tries to justify it, to spin it. Horse****.

What I told you was this: You're pathetic. Frankly, I'm going easy on you. After calling black people "animals" and saying 90% of Mexicans are dumb, "pathetic" is about the nicest thing any reasonable person could say about you. Kindly crawl back under whatever rock from beneath which you oozed, and refrain from joining the rest of us in the 21st century until you've grown up.

[Guynemer]

Oh, and Spray, in addition to having run-ins with the American Nazi Party (formerly based in Livonia), I've also participated in anti-Klan rallies here in Ann Arbor when those jackasses decided to come to town for the publicity. Don't be getting all high and mighty with me about who I decide to confront about being a bigot.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by morb
It IS cencorship. If one person told you to shut up, you'd ignore them and move one, but if thousands do this? Even if you're not going to change your opinion, you aren't going to express it because you finally get tired of the hassel.

Doesn't seem to have stoped you.

[Jac de Molay]

I've also participated in anti-Klan rallies here in Ann Arbor when
those jackasses decided to come to town for the publicity. Don't be getting all high and mighty with me about who I decide to confront about being a bigot.

With all due respect, it might be people like you that keeps bringing the Klan back to Ann Arbor. While I respect, and only respect, their right to free speech, creating a near-riot every time they show does give them the attention and empowerment they crave.


Morb, the only semi-valid point you make is that there are people in the world who use race/gender/sex orientation as political pawns- people like Al Sharpton and Johnny Cochrane are proof. And, in isolated circumstances, political correctness can infringe on free speech and such. However, to attach psychological profiles to people based on their skin color or ethnicity is just blatantly stupid, and doesn't even warrant the attention it has already received. I suggest you do some serious reading about the cultural experiences of those different than you before you start foaming at the mouth.

Dave

[chequita guevara]

DD, I'm ambivalent on whether or not to confront the Klan. On the one hand, they do crave the excitment they create. It gets them media attention, and probably allows them to connect with a few more racist losers. However, I think it would be far worse to allow them to show up and not have any response at all. That would embolden them, which is not something we want.

So far the best response I have seen is the organized boycott of Klan and Nazi rallies. Activists scour the area to organized everyone not to show up. When the racists appear, there's no one. They usually slink away immediately. It's tough to pull off, but when it works, it's extremely effective.